<p>Yes I went to Portland- no we didn’t look at schools
Younger D rode down with sis on Monday
( barely averted a crisis- she was * supposed *to take the train down Sunday- then sis was going to meet her- however Sis was with someone whose truck broke down and they didn’t get down to Portland till Monday night- Dthe younger- would have been sitting at the train station)</p>
<p>Tuesday night I drove down (oh so tired because even though it is a fairly short drive- I hate driving at night in the rain on the freeway alongside all those 18 wheelers- so I made several rest stops where I was amused to find had wireless)</p>
<p>I had called each of my Ds a few times- but their plans were always tentative- I finally gave up and took the max lt rail to downtown Portland and did errands.( oh and they finally called me- when I was trying on clothes to ask if I wanted to take them out to dinner- I said um- well no * now I was busy!-* but I took them out the next day- to Pho Van- on Hawthorne 
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<p>I suppose I should have gotten more info to D, so she would be more interested in the schools- because as far as I know, the only ones she knows anything about or is interested in, are Occidental and UCSC, which are probably not good fits, even though they could be realistic reaches.</p>
<p>But it sounds like she had a nice visit- so I am thinking we will try again spring break. We aren’t really in a hurry, she is planning on taking a year off - but I did make it clear that she still needs a back up plan for the year off so I will try to make a report after spring break ;)</p>